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9/111968 Weg zum Nachbarn (Way to the Neighbour)
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- Publication date
- 1968
- Usage
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
- Topics
- Lutz Mommartz, German experimental Cinema, Renate Meves, Gerd Hübinger.
- Publisher
- Mommartzfilm
- Language
- international
- Item Size
- 862.1M
With Renate Meves and Gerd Hübinger.
A woman looks during lovemaking to the viewer.
"Way to the neighbor" is a ten-minute opus that Lutz Mommartz commented as follows: "A women communicates with the audience." More, in fact, does not happen. The devoted rapture in the face of the actor lets the viewer imagine that this is not a compulsory exercise, but a pleasurable freestyle happening. Lutz Mommartz is the purist among German filmmakers. His scenes focus on the basic elements of movement and rest, of tense and relaxation. He forces with the suggestive power of repeated banality the audience into the rhythm of his cinematic action.
(THOMAS SCHRÖDER, DIE WELT, 12.10.68)
"Way to the neighbor" consists of a shot in a single take close-up of a woman's face.
Expression and movement are clear: The woman is having sex with a man and reaches twice a climax.
(FILM, JAN. 69)
The audience watches in the face of a young female performer the climax of love.
(STERN, 17.11.68)
One short work of art is the face of a girl having two ethereal orgasms, and rather nice, too: Happiness and art no doubt.
(THE OBSERVER, 30.8.70)
A woman looks during lovemaking to the viewer.
"Way to the neighbor" is a ten-minute opus that Lutz Mommartz commented as follows: "A women communicates with the audience." More, in fact, does not happen. The devoted rapture in the face of the actor lets the viewer imagine that this is not a compulsory exercise, but a pleasurable freestyle happening. Lutz Mommartz is the purist among German filmmakers. His scenes focus on the basic elements of movement and rest, of tense and relaxation. He forces with the suggestive power of repeated banality the audience into the rhythm of his cinematic action.
(THOMAS SCHRÖDER, DIE WELT, 12.10.68)
"Way to the neighbor" consists of a shot in a single take close-up of a woman's face.
Expression and movement are clear: The woman is having sex with a man and reaches twice a climax.
(FILM, JAN. 69)
The audience watches in the face of a young female performer the climax of love.
(STERN, 17.11.68)
One short work of art is the face of a girl having two ethereal orgasms, and rather nice, too: Happiness and art no doubt.
(THE OBSERVER, 30.8.70)
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The Lutz Mommartz Film Archive is a collection of the film works of German film-maker Lutz Mommartz, considered to be one of the pioneers in the film genre known as the "other cinema". Mommartz was born in Erkelenz in 1934 and spent most of his life in Düsseldorf. He began making movies in 1967 and eventually became Professor of Film at the Kunstakademie Münster. He still lives and works in Germany, dividing his time between Düsseldorf and Berlin.
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